Steam gives you the cards, these programs don't, they read your badge page to see which games have card drops and then they tell steam the game is playing until steam gives you the cards.

Your badge page:
http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/my/badges

CardIdleRemastered:
https://github.com/AlexanderSharykin/CardIdleRemastered/releases

Unzip it and run it.